Weak Bones? Blame Your Mobiles

By Denise Baptiste

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 15:51

Mobile phone which has become an inseparable part of our daily life, has been constantly under speculation for it's inverse health effects. One of the main health risk caused due to mobiles is believed to be brain tumour but now according to the scientists in Argentina, wearing mobile phone on the right hip or on the right side of the waist, can cause weak bones.

According to a research by the National University of Cuyo, wearing mobile phones on the right waist increases the chances of Osteoporosis.Yet another mobile health risks. Osteoporosis is a bone disorder which leads to bone mass reduction and deterioration. To prove that mobile can cause weak bones, the researchers took up an experiment. The experiment was done on 48 men, half of whom wore mobile on the right side of the waist and the other half who did not. They carried mobile for 11 hours everyday.

After about a month, the bone structure of both the groups were tested and the X-Ray showed that mobile caused weak bone for those who wore it on the right waist and the not for those who did not. Men who wore mobile on right were diagnosed for low bone mineral content and low bone mineral density.

"The different patterns of right-left asymmetry in femoral bone material found in mobile cellphone users and non users are consistent with a nonthermal effect of electromagnetic radio frequency waves not previously described," wrote author Dr. Fernando D. Sravi, of the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina on his study on mobile causes weak bone. He also cautioned that the mobile causes weak bones usually on the pelvic.